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By Jeremy | September 4, 2007
Ever since the founding of the republican experiment in 1776, the United States was still very much a fragile entity, and each generation was fearful of its prospects for survival. They knew that most republics throughout history had been overthrown by revolution, or had collapsed into dictatorship or civil war, or had succumbed to uncontrollable anarchy. The same fate, they feared, could be theirs. And their fears were hardly unfounded; history, then and now, is littered with bad endings. As Lincoln said, the Civil War was a time of "great testing." In many ways, never were the threats or temptations for an imperfect peace, or a time of unbridled enmity, or a protracted low-grade North-South conflict, or even the allure of a dictatorship, greater than in the final month. Whatever may have followed later, in these most crucial of days, none of this happened. How this came about is an important, and neglected, story of America.
Topics: abraham lincoln, april 1865, books, civil war, history, jay winik | No Comments »
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